SPOKEN LANGUAGE OF THE ARYANS - MAJOR LANGUAGE OF INDIA. SANSKRIT. CHIEF OF ARYAN TRIBES. RAJAH. TRIBES OF PEOPLE FROM EUROPE WHO INVADED INDIA - NAME MEANS “NOBLE ONES”. ARYAN. MAJOR PASSAGE WAY THROUGH THE HINDU KUSH MOUNTAINS. KHYBER PASS. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SPOKEN LANGUAGE OF THE ARYANS - MAJOR LANGUAGE OF INDIA
SANSKRIT
CHIEF OF ARYAN TRIBES
RAJAH
TRIBES OF PEOPLE FROM EUROPE WHO INVADED
INDIA - NAME MEANS “NOBLE ONES”
ARYAN
MAJOR PASSAGE WAY THROUGH THE HINDU KUSH
MOUNTAINS
KHYBER PASS
PERIOD THAT RAN FROM 1200 TO 500 B.C. - LIFE
EVOLVED AROUND THE VEDAS (RELIGIOUS BOOKS)
VEDIC AGE
LOCATED NORTHWEST OF INDIA - IT FORMED A NATURAL BARRIER
HINDU KUSH MOUNTAINS
LOCATED ALONG THE GANGES RIVER ALONG
NORTHERN INDIA
GANGES PLAIN
FOUR RELIGIOUS BOOKS “BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE” WRITTEN BY PRIESTS FOR
THE ARYANS
VEDAS
LONG NARRATIVE
POEM
EPIC
NATIONAL RELIGION OF INDIA - BASED IN ARYAN
RELIGION
HINDUISM
FOUR MAJOR SOCIAL CLASSES OF ARYAN
SOCEITY
VARNAS
FIRST CLASS OF PEOPLE IN THE VARNAS WARRIORS
RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
MILITARY
KSHATRIYAS
SECOND CLASS OF PEOPLE IN THE VARNAS CLASS SYSTEM
PRIESTSRESPONSIBILITY FOR
TEACHING THE VEDAS (HOLY BOOK)
BRAHMANS
THIRD CLASS OF PEOPLE IN THE VARNAS
MERCHANTS, FARMERS, CRAFTSMEN
RESPONSIBILITY FOR FARMING
PRODUCING AND TRADING GOODS
VAISYAS
FOURTH CLASS OF PEOPLE IN THE VARNAS CLASS SYSTEM UNSKILLED LABORERS AND
SERVANTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SERVING OTHER CLASSES
SUDRAS
THIS CLASS OF PEOPLE WERE CONSIDERED SO LOW THEY
WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CASTE SYSTEM
THEY SLAUGHTERED THE ANIMALS
OTHER CLASSES OF PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY WERE UNCLEAN THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO BE
SOCIAL OUTCASTS
PARIAHS
THIS SYSTEM WAS VERY RIGID
ONE COULD NOT MOVE FROM ONE CLASS TO THE
NEXT BASED ON BIRTH
CASTE SYSTEM
SUBDIVISION OF INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
BASED ON OCCUPATION
JATI
PARIAHS WERE CALLED THIS BECAUSE THEY WERE
CONSIDERED TO BE SOCIAL OUTCASTS
UNTOUCHABLES
EPIC POEMS THAT OUTLINED THE DUTIES OF INDIVIDUALS
MAHABHARATA
DUTIES OF THE MALES THAT BELONGED TO EACH CLASS
IN THE VARNAS CLASS SYSTEM
DHARMA
MAN CHOSEN BY GOD AS THE FIRST KING
VIRAJAS
THIS WAS PART OF THE MAHABHARATA
IT ILLUSTRATED THE IMPORTANCE OF DUTY IN
LIFE MEANS “SONG OF THE
LORD”
BHAGAVAD GITA
TALE OF KING RAMA AND HIS WIFE
DESCRIBES THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN
GOOD AND EVIL
RAMAYANA
RELIGIOUS WRITINGS
ALL LIVING THINGS HAVE SOULS
UPANISHADS
RELIEF FROM GOING FROM ONE LEVEL TO ANOTHER
MOKSHA
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXERCISE
A STATE OF PEACE
YOGA
THE ONE ETERNAL SPIRIT
BRAHMAN NERGUNA
THE PRACTICE THAT REQUIRES HINDUS TO PROTECT ALL LIVING